- Written 29112003 -

hmmm, dunno when i'll net connection... it sucks to not have access to the net... well, shall just save my entries on the com first till i've access...

am in the hostel now, woke up quite early, slept like 3 hours, its 8am here, or 5 am in Singapore... nick is still sleeping like a log next to me though i tried to wake him up... *rolleyes* sometimes, i wish i were not such a light sleeper, i dunno how many times i woke up, when the sun rose at 5am aus time, yes 5am!!, i woke up, and i dunno how many other times too... geez...

well, guess we are going shopping today, wp and claire are so totally obessessed with it... not that i mind actually cuz i've got stuff to buy for pple...

oh yeah, the flight yesterday was... disgusting, for me at least. i dun like planes, the smell and the feeling of taking one. i felt like puking a few hours into the flight, and had no appetite for quite sometime, it was just utter discomfort. the feeling of naseau took many hours to subside as well. hmmm, glad the other 3 enjoyed their flight though, was playing hangman when i was actually feeling well, and it was quite amusing that me and nick were pondering over words on our screens but when we glanced over, we almost always knew the answer instantly... nick was then playing a whole array of other games while claire and wp were watching many movies... :P

thank goodness my phone works here, or we'd be so dead, after reaching the airport, it was quite amusing cause there were these little dogs going around sniffing at the luggage trying to detect the food items. then, we had to got through declarations, and i stupidly followed the rest to declare my medicine which they couldn't be bothered to find - instead they tried to look for the food that didn't exist... whatever... haha... oh, the phone thing was cause we couldn't really find claire cause she was way faster in exiting than us for some reason, and well, the airport is quite huge... :S

we were greeted by friendly pple from the college and brought there quite promptly... :) the campus is v nice, esp at night, it looked like one of those old buildings which i read about since young, in Enid Blyton books? ;) the place is very scenic, there's always a light breeze blowing across the campus, and the trees grow nicely around, haha... was so happy... :P

so we got our keys, and rooms. someone from hc apparently stole nick's room, so i was left stranded alone on the ground floor, while the rest were on the next floor... :( but then, wp moved our of her v large room cuz she wanted to bunk in with claire, so that left a v large room, like 2-3 times larger to either mine or nick's empty. of course me and nick assumed ownership and moved in... :P oh yeah, and this is the most hilarious thing... at first there was no excess key to my room, so i didn't get a key!!! so i asked, how do i get into my room if i locked it? the answer: dun lock. i was like shocked, and the guy said that not to worry, that it was safe etc... haha, rite, laptop, digi cam, phone, cash... hmmm... well, anyway, then another person came, and gave me a key, told me to be careful cuz it was a special key. uh.. bad move, u gave yrself away... that key was a master key, and i could open every door in the dorm! haha, it was so convenient to get anywhere now... hahaha!!

oh yeah, the toilets are shared... and i mean shared between both sexes... kinda weird cuz am not used to it... well, at least my level is all guys. nick was feeling weird to have girls using the toilet on his... oh yeah, somehow i played sim city cuz i was sick of all my strategy, and nick was interested! haha, played till so late, but my com hung and we stopped. stupid way to end cause i couldn't save it... sighs...

finally, it doesn't cost any extra for any of you to sms/call me... but it does for me to sms or call u guys... sucks huh? :P kk, gotta have breakfast now... bye! :P


- Written 30112003 -

yay, feel more rested this morning than the last... slept about 8 hours... :)
am blogging now cause nick is still fast asleep, he can't seem to get anough sleep!! last nite, i went out for a minute, and he was fast asleep already, haha, no more insomnia nick! :P

anyway, yesterday (30112003) was quite a fun day... we went shopping by ourselves! after breakfast, a quite good one, we set off for Lygon Street. we were like 4 pple who didn't know the place just following directions to get to a place... we needed to buy groceries and food, so we had to find the supermarket. after 20mins of guessing, we finally reached the destination. this time, we were walking amidst a very very strong breeze... ;) on our way, we passed many interesting shops, oh and the different blocks of the university campus - its really huge. haha... took forever just to walk through it. we bought some food, and left... then there was this book offer where i bought 2 books for my dad! they were quite cheap cuz they were on sale! :)

we decided to return cuz some of the food was frozen, besides most shops weren't open till 12. this time we took half the time to go back cuz we were smart! took many shortcuts! :P yups, apparently nick was v tired, he collapsed onto the floor while i was putting stuff into the fridge! :S

we then set off for the city, haha, amazing we could find our way round... :P ok, once we were there, then wp and claire split with nick and xq... dun, will wanna look at different things rite? :P oh, first stop was this v interestig game shop, it sold like every type of board game i ever knew, and didn't know! did u know they had warcraft board games??! haha, but everything was so ex, so... :(

next, we went into this super larger departmental store, called Myers. We just kept going up, higher and higher, cuz it seemed every storey was for females, for 5 storeys - large ones too! then level 6 was for kids and 7 was for toys... so we were left wondering where the male section was... anyway, we saw J Lo's brand of clothing!! nick was such a pest, refused to go look at them with me! :@ anyway, we exited the building, and guess what, there was another block named Myers. and, the whole section was men's stuff... until level 5 where it was electronics and stuff. well, not like we could really afford much, everything there was like upwards of $80? even print tees... :( well, at least the electronics stuff was cheaper... :P but it was still fun looking at the stuff there...

well, then we went to the next mall we saw, called Melbourne Central i think. went into this gift shop which had many interesting stuff, bought something which i think i'll give to yuan... haha, we'll see.. then had lunch there cuz nick looked like he was gonna die if we walked anymore, so lousy!! had some italian focaccia for lunch, was quite nice... nick's one... haha, was so dry he was having so much trouble chewing it. i had to go down a few streets to seven eleven to buy a slurpee for him cuz drinks in tt shop was so ex! haha, at least he seemed to appreciate it...

okie, next few hours was just wondering round and round cuz everywhere sold stuff that was just too ex. surf shops here sell the same stuff as singapore, except the singapore dollar becomes aus dollars??! how dumb.. and some are even more ex than in sing.. so not worth it. bah... sorry zp... :S anyway, next, went to hmv where i got my special edition TLC Greatest Hit CD! Ok, its special cuz its australian version which comes with the DVD... haha. But i dunno why i bought it since of the 19 tracks, i've 17 and i had all the vids in the DVD... guess i'm a devoted fan... ;) but its really good, get it if u have the $$... :P

after that, we went back to Myers cuz nick wanted to get kingdom hearts fo himself... like he'll have time to play it anyway... :P

haha, oh yeah, forgot to tell u the absurd request my mum had... *rolleyes* Just buy three shirts for your sister. Rite, and what, be stranded here for the next 14 days without any cash??! i decided that my sister needed to be more feminine, so i enlisted the help of claire, and got her a denim skirt and some pretty top, she had better wear it! its my highest expense today!

we then took the tram back, its really interesting this tram... its very fast and comes v often! is pollution free, doesn't depend on traffic, hmmm, really nice. but its also v costly, $2! :( haha... whatever...

nick and i just played sim city the whole nite after we were back... its quite good, we've like got a nice large city already... but were dead tired... ok, shall try to wake him now.. bye! :P


- Written 01122003 -

yet another early morning... its really freezing here, is it summer or winter?! u dun need air-con here, just open the window and u freeze yr ass off... :( yesterday was really bad, was really, really cold.

was quite an eventful day yesterday!! the program started... haha... in the morning, we went shopping again before the programme, but wasn't really in the mood to shop, so was just walking round. the things here are so ex anyway... :( well well, skipped lunch, and became hungry the rest of the day... :S haha... we registered and had the shortest tour of the school... hmmm... it lasted like half an hour and we didn't leave the college campus to enter the university one... well, guess we'll get to do that the rest of the day. then we had the next 3 hours off... played bridge and hearts. at first when bridging, my hands were... impeccable! i won games by myself, haha... then it ran out... :$ haha, but hearts was more competitive. at first peiying had 50+ points while i had 13 points. somehow, in 3 rounds, i had taken the lead with 60+ points cuz she shot the moon and i got saboed... ;) anyway, i had double nick's pts at tt point in time... :$ but somehow, i managed to stay in there... and eventually win! *gasp* ;) haha, had 6 pts less than sabrina and 7 points less than nick... :P during that time, i ate no less than 3 packets of potato chips as well as lots of buscits! well, i skipped lunch... :P

well, then we went for dinner in the college. it was the most sumptous dinner i had in melbourne. better than tt microwaved stuff i had the day before for sure. there was bread, rice, beef, yummy pasta!! and veges. then had this chocolate cake for desert. they were sooo decieving. at first when i was there, i thought the wine bottles had wine in them... they turned out to be water. haha...

had some night activities after that. we were slipped into groups of 8, had none of the other rjc students in my group... awww... but my group was pretty good anyway. 2.5 other singaporeans, 2 malaysians, 2.5 aussies. haha, the .5 is cuz one singaporean is now staying in australia to study - cuz she didn't wanna study chinese... haha! well, they were friendly and cordial pple... :) we played many games, first was the knotting game, which we untangled our human knot with ease. then was the hand thumping game, where one thump of the floor means u pass e tap on, and 2 means u change direction. i'm sure u all played it before... :P anyway, i sorta won it... there was some other hc guy and me left, with 2 hands each, so we called it a tie... haha... the others all died already! okie, some other games we played, but too hard to describe here... but had fun... gotta meet some new pple. the next game was really hilarious. its this game *Honey, do u love me?* so what u do is that there is a pointer u spin, and it'll point to a certain person sitting in the ring. there is one person in the center, and he'll have to go up to the one which the pointer is pointing to and then ask the subject - Honey, do u love me? If u do, please give me a smile. then that person has to reply, *honey, i love u, but i just can't smile* If the subject smiles, awww, he/she will have to take the center... haha, it was really hard not to laugh sometimes, cuz some pple were just so funny! :P anyway, the first time i got pointed to, i smiled, supposedly... and i had to take the center... :( it was quite funny, this girl suddenly sat on my lap and start saying those stuff... oh then there was this indian girl who was sashaying and proclaiming, "I'm no good at these mushy mushy stuff"... well, but she sure was good at flirting... hurhur... well, we had to swap groups and stuff cuz we were playing in fairly large groups of 30+. anyway, in the end i got called upon 10 times in all... haha, but i got better each time and i was stoned face in the end, quite cruel... there was this guy who started rubbing my legs... *cringes* but i rejected and he look quite annoyed... haha!! then this girl, who was so slutty... she crawled up to me started ruffling my hair, and she looked positively distraut after that... oops... :P

after a long day, went to play sim city for some time, then went to bed... nICE DAY... :)
yups yup, its happening again... i'm sure U know what i'm talking about rite? ;)


- Written 02122003 -

hmmm, its late... its almost 1 am now... sorry nick, for keeping u up... :S talked to him for more than 2 hours i think...had lots to say... poured out lots of things from my heart... haha... always deeply satisfying after such conversations. but but but... i've not really finished talking abt stuff, so its gonna be kinda weird now cuz there is no proper closure to things... :P anyway, something we talked about was how things changed... said he was spending more time on the phone, going out more often... hmmm, i dunno if its the same for me... am afraid of drifting further and further away from some of my friends... :(

yups, its raining now, gonna be yet another freezing nite... boohoo. will probably be getting my internet access tmr, so i can actually upload all this stuff, but i wonder if anyone is even gonna read. someone probably will... :)

anyway, the day was such a long one... had to attend 3 lectures today. physics, chemistry and organic chemistry... and some briefing. honestly, the speakers were brilliant, they were highly engaging and interesting, except for the chemistry one. the whole problem was that for physics and chemistry, i had learnt most of the stuff before, almost all in fact, so it became boring and i fell asleep. plus, i was super tired. the experiments they showed were just great... making laura's hair stand on end, concentrating infra-red rays onto a stick to light it, mixing chemicals to produce fluorescent mixture... etc...

was happy to then just have a rest before the formal dinner. then me and nick took showers and dressed up... i'm sure u can see from the pix... which i'll upload soon. nick took his dad's ties... and they were quite bad, so i lent him mine... haha... those are nicer... :P after the lovely dinner... very very very tasty, we took many pix, as can be seen. yups, the dinner was salad, then this fried half chicken with some buttery sauce in the chicken, which gave me a real surprise when i cut open the chicken cause it just oozed out nicely. then there was great desert too! :) was fun being with my group, though none of the pple there were pple i knew... shall post a pix of them too! :P then, terence, this hc guy concluded i was mixed blood, and this malaysian told me her friend things i look like this guy in the korean show called 'Lan Se Lian Ai' or something like that la... highly amusing... :P

well, then we went to lygon street to eat gelantino! yumm! :P haha, actually, the whole purpose was so we got to interact with more pple... :) well, i sure got to... had strange pple who came up to me to ask me things like, "Are u Clark?" then was "Is your name Carl"... well, my name here is Kyle... the interesting thing is that the person who asked if i was Clark told me some girl had a crush on me... and then, he apparently made a mistake, and said it was Carl the girl liked... then finally, someone asked me for my name... and they got it rite at last... haha.. was highly amusing anyway. well, kinda have an idea who it is... i dunno, not feeling ego about it or even too happy... dun really wanna hurt anyone again...

i'm being highly sloppy here missed out lots of things i wanted to say, but its late and i still gotta sleep... :P sorry nick once again for keeping u up, know u r SUPER tired... :P miss u guys back in singapore... msg me leh! ;)